Vaccination Regret In The Netherlands (The Most Popular Word In Dutch)

The image above is a close up of a Vaccinated Asian teen girl in a face mask. Showing a plaster bandage on her arm after getting covid-19 vaccine injection on yellow studio background. It was posted and published on DutchNews.nl.

Prikspijt, a new word for regretting getting a vaccination, has been voted Dutch word of the year after a social media campaign, reports dictionary maker Van Dale. The word had 82.2% of almost 49,000 votes cast, followed by woonprotest (protests about the Dutch housing crisis) and wappiegeluid (a derogatory term applied to coronavirus conspiracy theorists). Van Dale defines prikspijt as ‘a feeling of regret someone has about having been vaccinated against any infectious disease.

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After reading the post on Dutch News website, I thought about all the people who are having second thoughts about being vaccinated. New Dutch words coming out. They are being created to give us the language to express the traumas of Covid-19.